US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Dec. 2 for "System and method for estimating occupant movement in response to automatic emergency braking" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,843, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"System and method for estimating occupant movement in response to automatic emergency braking" was invented by Charles A. Bartlett (Commerce Township, Mich.), Kyeora Lee (Farmington Hills, South Korea) and Kiran Balasubramanian (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an actuatable safety device for protecting an occupant of a vehicle includes utilizing an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) to determine that a vehicle collision is impending. In response to determining the existence of an impending vehicle colli...